Monday afternoon into the evening, the PSN received a random outage all across the boards. Every service was out for gamers. Sony has yet to say what the cause of the outage was, but they have announced that they will be compensating PS Plus gamers with an extension to their subscriptions.
Thanks for your patience today – stay tuned for details on PS Plus, PS Now, and video rental extensions.
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) January 5, 2016
Sony has yet to reveal how long the extensions will be, but stay tuned for the update.